‘Rights can be knocked out in a second’: older trans people shocked by supreme court ruling
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Women who transitioned decades ago feel their safety and security has suddenly been removed

Women who transitioned decades ago feel their safety and security has suddenly been removed

Last week’s supreme court ruling sent shock waves through the UK’s trans community.

The unanimous judgment said the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 did not include transgender women who hold gender recognition certificates (GRCs).

That feeling was compounded when Kishwer Falkner, the chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which is preparing new statutory guidance, said the judgment meant only biological women could use single-sex changing rooms and toilets.

  • vzq@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Good on you for leaving the EU with at that fuss about “human rights” and “rule of law”.

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        6 hours ago

        Well, that’s not so bad then as this case can still be appealed to the European Court of Human Rights then.

        I distinctly remember how one of the “benefits” Brexiters claimed for leaving the EU was not having to be a member of the Euopean Convention of Human Rights anymore (which is mandatory for all EU members), so I’m pleasantly surprised the UK hasn’t left it yet (I was an EU immigrant in Britain and left the country just before Brexit and didn’t really keep up with British politics since).

        • Ginny [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          6 hours ago

          This case specifically can’t be appealed to the ECHR since the scotland act doesn’t allow the devolved government to do so (IIRC), so we’ll probably have a few years of this until another case works its way up the ladder.

        • IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 hours ago

          For anyone else who didn’t recognize those initialisms:

          The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and its European Court of Human Rights are part of a completely different legal system to the EU. The ECHR and its court are part of the Council of Europe, which has 47 member states, including Russia and the UK. The EU, on the other hand, consists of 27 Member States.
          The European Court of Justice (ECJ) is the body responsible for overseeing compliance with EU law within the EU. That said, the EU and Council of Europe systems are intertwined because the ECHR lies behind many of the general principles of EU law and its provisions have been used as a basis for the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights. All 27 EU member states are also members of the Council of Europe.

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